{"id":155588,"date":"2024-04-14T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155588"},"modified":"2024-04-13T20:31:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T00:31:35","slug":"abu-ghraib-detainees-as-plaintiffs-in-us-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155588","title":{"rendered":"Abu Ghraib detainees as plaintiffs in US court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-with-panel-of-judges-20240304-D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-155589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-with-panel-of-judges-20240304-D-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-with-panel-of-judges-20240304-D-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-with-panel-of-judges-20240304-D-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-with-panel-of-judges-20240304-D-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-with-panel-of-judges-20240304-D-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-with-panel-of-judges-20240304-D.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three former Abu Ghraib detainees are getting their day in a U.S. court. They&#8217;ve initiated a civil suit against a Virginia-based contractor, CACI. The three former detainees hold CACI responsible for setting things up that contributed to their torture. However, CACI is insisting that it was the U.S. Military that set conditions up that resulted in the tortures.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the Military Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The plaintiffs, though, seek to hold CACI responsible for setting the conditions that resulted in the torture they endured, citing evidence in government investigations that CACI contractors instructed military police to &#8220;soften up&#8221; detainees for their interrogations.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Army Gen. Antonio Taguba, who led an investigation into the Abu Ghraib scandal, is among those expected to testify. His inquiry concluded that at least one CACI interrogator should be held accountable for instructing military police to set conditions that amounted to physical abuse.<\/p>\n<p>There is little dispute that the abuse was horrific. The photos released in 2004 showed naked prisoners stacked into pyramids or dragged by leashes. Some photos had a soldier smiling and giving a thumbs up while posing next to a corpse, or detainees being threatened with dogs, or hooded and attached to electrical wires.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs cannot be clearly identified in any of the infamous images, but their descriptions of mistreatment are unnerving.<\/p>\n<p>Suhail Al Shimari has described sexual assaults and beatings during his two months at the prison. He was also electrically shocked and dragged around the prison by a rope tied around his neck. Former Al-Jazeera reporter Salah Al-Ejaili said he was subjected to stress positions that caused him to vomit black liquid. He was also deprived of sleep, forced to wear women&#8217;s underwear and threatened with dogs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Military Times has additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2024\/04\/12\/20-years-later-abu-ghraib-detainees-get-their-day-in-us-court\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three former Abu Ghraib detainees are getting their day in a U.S. court. They&#8217;ve initiated a &hellip; <a title=\"Abu Ghraib detainees as plaintiffs in US court\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155588\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abu Ghraib detainees as plaintiffs in US court<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,387,400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-international-affairs","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}